Why do Bats Transmit so many Diseases like Ebola?
Subscribe to MinuteEarth! - http://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth?sub_confirmation=1 And please support us on Patreon: https://goo.gl/ZVgLQZ. Video Concept and Writing:...
==========
Nipah. Hendra. Ebola. Marburg. SARS. These are some of the world’s scariest viruses.Hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola are extremely fatal – they kill up to 90 percent of peopleinfected – while SARS, a coronavirus, has a lower mortality rate but spreads incrediblyrapidly. All of these nasty pathogens have surfaced in humans in just the last 50 years,and they are all carried by bats.Which, to be clear, really isn’t bats’ fault: the recent rise in outbreaks is likelydue to humans and our animals creeping ever-farther into bats’ territory, especially in thetropics. In Malaysia, for example, the spread of commercial pig farms into bat-inhabitedforests led to the first human outbreak - via pigs - of Nipah. And in Australia, human hendracases are cropping up as destruction native forests...
==========
Nipah. Hendra. Ebola. Marburg. SARS. These are some of the world’s scariest viruses.Hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola are extremely fatal – they kill up to 90 percent of peopleinfected – while SARS, a coronavirus, has a lower mortality rate but spreads incrediblyrapidly. All of these nasty pathogens have surfaced in humans in just the last 50 years,and they are all carried by bats.Which, to be clear, really isn’t bats’ fault: the recent rise in outbreaks is likelydue to humans and our animals creeping ever-farther into bats’ territory, especially in thetropics. In Malaysia, for example, the spread of commercial pig farms into bat-inhabitedforests led to the first human outbreak - via pigs - of Nipah. And in Australia, human hendracases are cropping up as destruction native forests...
